Be Contented as a Child

When I was looking at the old photographs of my children, it reminds me how beautiful they are when they were still babies and I noticed how quiet and contented they are when I was carrying them in my arms. It is good to be a child, indeed, as you are not aware what things are happening around you. 

Psalms 131:1-3 

1 O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me. 

2 Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry. 

3 O Israel, hope in the Lord now and forevermore! 

The psalmist in Psalms 131 is trying to console himself and not to concern the things that are beyond his. With our limited knowledge and wisdom, we cannot explain and longs for things that cannot reach by human capabilities. There are things that we can only hope for to God that everything we need will be taken care of by Him. Like a mother to His child, God want us to rest in His Hope. 

Though we all on our way to maturity in knowledge, experience, and physical aspects; our attitude toward God's control over our lives must remain like a child. We need to be humble before God and do not boast about ourselves as his child doing everything he required from us to do. Instead, he encouraged us to hope in God about concerns that we cannot understand even to the point of suffering while serving Him. 

God wants to reach us and hold in His arms, and take his rest. Resting before God assures us of peace away from any troubles we are worried about. God wants us to keep ourselves quiet and be a child before Him, that as a child we simply trust our mother as she carries us in her arms. 

There, our contentment allows us to enjoy the moment with her. The next time we come before God, let everyone of us hope to the Lord now and forever to enjoy peace in eternity with Him. 

God bless everyone!!!

Participate in God's Restoration

When we accepted Jesus as our personal Lord and Saviour with all our heart, in truth and in action; we experienced a rebirth of our spirit. We, together with Christ, have overcome death which is the wages of sin and given a renewed life born of Spirit from God and promised of eternal life with Him. This metamorphosis drama of redemption is indeed an illustration of God's abundant grace and love to all humanity. Finally, we are now restored in our relationship with God that once had been broken by our sin.

The faith of every believer, his cries, and his longings; moves God spirit and that what gives us the opportunity to live a renewed lives. Jesus, in one important event of his ministry on earth, awakened Lazarus who was buried for days then. You can follow this story in John 11:1-44. When Jesus called Lazarus to wake up, there was no participation from crowd occurred. However when Lazarus came out from his tomb, Jesus commanded them to "unwrap him and let him go." It was written in John 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

These words of Jesus are of great significant to all of us, children of God, to do our part in every people borne of new faith after God's merciful redemption. We are ask to help the new believers in their journey of a righteous living, to unwrap them to unleash their new lives with Jesus and not to keep them in their dark, stiffed, and sinful old lives. From then, you also have to let them go if you help the person to find himself a new creation with Christ.

We have the responsibility with our fellow believers, not because we are their brothers and sisters in Christ but because we are simply ask by Jesus to do it.

God bless everyone!